Results 35,261-35,280 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Health has met. [36232/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: We were given a copy of the Supplementary Estimates for the end of the year today. Will the Taoiseach explain the astonishing decision not to provide additional funding for health? Will a further Supplementary Estimate be introduced for health? If not, how will the €35 million promised for mental health be provided? In the context of our earlier discussion of mental health...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: Anybody with any experience of government knows that four Ministers of State in any one Department is a recipe for confusion overlap and mixed messages as to who is really in charge. I say that with no disrespect to the individuals involved who I am aware are trying. In the previous Government, the Taoiseach took the role of chairing each Cabinet committee. He told us recently his mojo...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: Six minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: Why not?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: Not really.
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: Was that the first round?
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: I understand Deputy Pearse Doherty hopes to return and speak on his amendment. This issue concerns accumulated tax losses that have built up in the tax system as a consequence of the crash, particularly in respect of banking and financial organisations and the construction industry. During the work of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, I raised this issue with the Revenue Commissioners....
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: No, I invented it. The Deputy would not be familiar with it.
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: The Deputy would not be familiar with it.
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: I have not seen them.
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: That must have been a few years back.
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: The Minister's answer makes the perfect case for commissioning a report. It contains a lot of information that has not been put into the public domain before. I am aware of the fact that, in response to discussions on this issue, the Minister introduced a levy. The intentions of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett are good, but I can explain something to him. We could not possibly have brought...
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: I will finish on this point. We need capital investment now. If we can have a better cash flow and profits from the banks, we can build more houses and invest more capital in infrastructure.
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: I join Deputy Michael McGrath in his remarks on the work being done on this issue by those involved in Revenue and the Department of Finance. I do not necessarily need the answer right now, but, on a technical issue, I would like to know what specific anti-avoidance mechanisms have been developed to provide for constant reviews and address the possibilities raised legitimately by Deputy...
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: The emphasis is on the words "any residual profits".
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: People's ordinary concept of a charity involves an organisation or society designed to give support or relief of distress or, for instance, to provide services for a hospice, a hospital, schools, for people here in Ireland, refugees or for people in the developing world. We all know what is the ordinary concept of charity. We are not asking the Minister to have an exact answer now. Words...
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: I understand the motives Deputy Boyd Barrett has expressed but I fear the impact of his amendment would be to potentially undo significant amounts of what people have agreed on a cross-party basis, which is a positive achievement. It would also help matters if the Minister of State would read a collection of notes on a number of the points because we are trying to deal with little bits where...
- Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Joan Burton: The Deputy might have misunderstood. I am simply saying-----